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The exchange started like this: at the end of Jeb Bush’s town-hall meeting in Reno, Nevada, on Wednesday, a college student named Ivy Ziedrich stood up and said that she had heard Bush blame the growth of <i>ISIS</i> on President Obama, in particular on his decision to withdraw American troops from Iraq in …

<i>Editor's note: There is some adult language in this piece that some readers may find offensive.</i><p>They say that all actors really want to direct. That all journalists dream of being novelists. That all babies want to grow up to be cowboys. And that all comedians want to become data analysts. Okay, …

Dr. Kendra Fleagle Gorlitsky recalls the anguish she felt performing CPR on elderly, terminally ill patients.<p>It looks nothing like what we see on TV. In real life, ribs often break and few survive the ordeal.<p>"I felt like I was beating up people at the end of their life," she says. "I would be doing …

"Good people with the best of intentions ... can get things terribly, terribly wrong," says legal scholar Adam Benforado. His book, <i>Unfair</i>, explores the intrinsic flaws of the American justice system.<p>Transcript<p>TERRY GROSS, HOST:<p>This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. We've all heard stories of people …

I can remember the weeks before starting school at Skidmore College, furiously trying to finish Gregory Howard Williams' memoir, <i>Life on the Color Line.</i> The book had been assigned as our freshman reading assignment — part of the First-Year Experience at the liberal arts school in Saratoga Springs, …

A large body of psychological research on the ‘weapons effect’ may help explain the often violent interactions between police and the policed<p>When police officers put on their badges and blues, do they somehow change inside? Surrounded by stories of pepper-sprayed protesters, threats at traffic …

Lack of sleep is a common problem among high-school students, and it can do serious damage, hampering mental activity and resulting in reduced academic performance.<p>Sleep-deprived children display less brain activity while working on maths problems, for example, and make more mistakes in tests. In …